'Wife hunt': Norway's crown princess faces backlash over Epstein link; issues apology

Norway’s royal household faced renewed scrutiny this week arsenic charities reviewed oregon chopped ties with Crown Princess Mette-Marit implicit her past interaction with precocious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, portion critics questioned her suitability arsenic Norway’s aboriginal queen. The Crown Princess issued a “profound apology” to Norwegians aft it emerged she had exchanged messages with Epstein for 3 years.

"I besides apologise for the concern successful which I person placed the Royal House, particularly the King and Queen," she said successful a palace statement.Hundreds of emails exchanged betwixt Crown Princess Mette-Marit and Jeffrey Epstein betwixt 2011 and 2014 were revealed successful files released by the US Justice Department past week. Some messages discussed plans to conscionable successful idiosyncratic and showed that the crown princess spent 4 days astatine Epstein’s Palm Beach location successful Florida portion helium was reportedly not present.Emails sent successful 2012 from “H K H Kronprinsessen” — Norwegian for “Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess”, amusement Mette-Marit referring to Jeffrey Epstein arsenic “sweetheart” and “soft hearted,” arsenic cited by CNN.In different speech the aforesaid year, she described Epstein arsenic “very charming,” and wrote: “Is it inappropriate for a parent to suggest 2 bare women carrying a surfboard for my 15-year-old sons wallpaper?”A abstracted 2012 speech records Epstein saying helium was connected a “wife hunt,” adding: “Paris is proving absorbing but I similar scandinavians (sic).”

Mette-Marit replied that Paris was “good for adultery” and that “Scandis amended woman material.”The code of the correspondence amazed galore successful Norway, and the messages bespeak she was alert Epstein had served a jailhouse word successful 2008. In an October 2011 email, she wrote: “Googled u aft past email… Agree didn’t look excessively good.”The palace initially issued a connection past week successful which the crown princess expressed regret and acknowledged “poor judgment”, but it faced unit to clarify the quality of her narration with Epstein.In a further connection connected Friday, the palace said she was “deeply saddened” that she had not realised earlier what benignant of idiosyncratic Epstein was. It added that she wanted to supply a much elaborate mentation but was successful a “very hard situation” and needed clip to “gather herself.”

Crown Princess’s lad denies rape charges

Another contention surrounding Norway’s royal household centres connected Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s 29-year-old son, Marius Borg Høiby, who broke down successful tears during his archetypal time of grounds this week arsenic helium denied 4 counts of rape successful an Oslo court.Høiby is not successful the enactment of succession, having been calved earlier Mette-Marit joined Crown Prince Haakon successful 2001.Ahead of the proceedings opening connected Tuesday, Crown Prince Haakon issued a uncommon connection reaffirming Høiby’s presumption arsenic a backstage citizen, saying his stepson was “not a subordinate of the Royal House of Norway and is truthful autonomous.”